Opinion
2015-UP-550
12-01-2015
South Carolina Department of Social Services, Respondent, v. Angel Bates and James Bates, Defendants, Of whom James Bates is the Appellant. In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.
Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant. Kaye Davis, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent. Brittany Dreher Senerius, of Senerius & Tye, Attorneys at Law, of Anderson, for the Guardian ad Litem.
UNPUBLISHED OPINION
Submitted October 28, 2015
Appeal From Anderson County, No. 2015-000830 Karen F. Ballenger, Family Court Judge
Kimberly Yancey Brooks, of Kimberly Y. Brooks, Attorney at Law, of Greenville, for Appellant.
Kaye Davis, of South Carolina Department of Social Services, of Anderson, for Respondent.
Brittany Dreher Senerius, of Senerius & Tye, Attorneys at Law, of Anderson, for the Guardian ad Litem.
PER CURIAM
James Bates appeals the family court's final order terminating his parental rights to his minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570 (Supp. 2014). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's findings of facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex parte Cauthen, 291 S.C. 465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues that warrant briefing. Accordingly, we affirm the family court's ruling and relieve Bates's counsel.
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.
HUFF, WILLIAMS, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.